The acquisition of Packet Design will help accelerate Ciena’s Blue
Planet software strategy by extending its intelligent automation
capabilities beyond Layers 0-2 and into IP with critical new
capabilities to help customers optimize service delivery and maximize
network utilization. Specifically, the combination of the Blue Planet
software platform and Packet Design’s performance analytics and service
path computation capabilities will form a unique, micro-services-based
platform that delivers real-time analytics, optimization and
orchestration capabilities to support the broadest range of closed-loop
automation use cases across multi-layer, multi-vendor networks.

“Blue Planet is already one of the premier brands in the network
automation space. The addition of Packet Design will enhance our
position by enabling customers to realize networks that are more
adaptive – capable of self-optimizing and self-healing for faster
time-to-market for new services, more efficient and lower cost network
operations, and the ability to deliver an overall better customer
experience,” said Rick Hamilton, senior vice president of Global
Software and Services at Ciena.

The transaction is expected to close during Ciena’s fiscal third quarter
2018 and is subject to customary closing conditions.

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